The difference between a standing order and a direct debit. Essentially, a standing order is an instruction to your bank, whereas a direct debit gives permission to a company to take money from you. You are the only person who can change the date or payment amount on your standing order.
Born on April 17, 1894 in Kalinovka, Russia, Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. In a 1956 secret speech, he discussed Stalin's crimes for the first time, starting a process called de-Stalinization..
Prominent Russians: Mikhail Gorbachev. Born March 2, 1931. Image from www.gorby.ru. The man who brought the ideas of Glasnost and Perestroika to the Soviet Union and the only President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev tried to beat widespread alcoholism in the country and breathe new life into the staggering Soviet economy.